Following a board meeting of the Guildford and Waverley Primary Care Trust, Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate Jeremy Hunt has expressed huge concern about the possible impact on local health services of a forecast deficit of over £3m that apparently has to be met by the end of this financial year.The board meeting, held in the Cranleigh Arts Centre on 27 January, instructed Chief Executive Elizabeth Slinn to stop all expenditure that did not affect clinical safety or Key Performance Indicators. The board has a deficit of £3.4m, which must be rectified before the end of March this year when the financial year ends. An action plan was unveiled to try to meet the deficit, which involved reducing spending at acute hospitals by £1m through ""demand management"".Jeremy is concerned that savings of this magnitude could impact on clinical services. Jeremy Commented:""They have to make a huge saving in a very short space of time. It would take Houdini to get them out of this one. The worry is that some people may not end up getting the treatment they need because of the urgency with which these savings are having to be implemented."" He added:""I know that the board will make every endeavour to prevent this happening. I also know that people in Waverley will be wondering what on earth has happened to all Gordon Brown's supposed largesse? We're suffering badly in Surrey.”